Appropriations Law and the Antideficiency Act Webinar

This is a one-day (6 instruction hours) webinar version of Centre’s two-day Antideficiency Act course. The features reduced or deleted from the two-day course include a review of every reported ADA violation, 2005-2014, and a comprehensive review exercise. The one-day course consists of the following topics, all of which are essential to comprehending the Antideficiency Act.

Topics:

Fiscal Law. Fiscal law and the sources of fiscal law, including the disputed fiscal law authorities of the Comptroller General and the Attorney General.

Core Concepts. The concepts of “availability” (and its three components); an “obligation;” and an appropriation.

Time. Availability as to time; the life cycle of an appropriation; the time rules on the funding of supply contracts and severable and nonseverable service contracts (including crossing fiscal years and incremental funding); and the year’s appropriation to be charged for equitable adjustments, claims, and the ratification of unauthorized commitments.

Amount and the Antideficiency Acts. Availability as to amount; the background and purpose of the core ADAs; apportionments – the purpose and processes; subdivisions of apportionments; the ADA on the acceptance of voluntary services and the award of personal services contracts; the dispute between the Comptroller General and Attorney General on certain purpose violations and the ADA; ADA violations – common scenarios of violations, investigation of suspected violations, and penalties.